OMG!!! OMG!!!
This is getting deeper by the minute...it's not going to stop so easily.
I had to translate the writings of Kublai Khan when his army invaded Java.
Back in 1260, Kublai Khan (who tried to invade Indonesia) commissioned a holy man to come up with a new national script,
which took place in 1269.
It was called the Phags-pa script, after the monk who came up with it.
It was used to write Mongolian, Chinese, Tibetan and Sanskrit.
I could (and still can) read and translate Phags Pa!!!
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/phagspa.htm
This is giving me a headache now...but at least I know how it all happened.